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Abramowicz Andrzej, Maik Jerzy [eds]
ISBN 83-85463-97-6
Price € 28
Architecture and Builders in the Past [Budownictwo i budowniczowie w przeszłości. Studia dedykowane Tadeuszowi Poklewskiemu
in Polish, French, German, English; abstracts in English
Łódź 2002, 546 pp., illustrations; B5
Studies dedicated to Professor Tadeusz Poklewski on his 70th anniversary.
archaeology - history - architecture - fortifications - Europe - Poland
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Balcer Bogdan
ISBN 83-85463-92-5
Price € 19
Ćmielów - Krzemionki - Świeciechów. Relations between the Neolithic Settlement and Flint Mines. [Ćmielów - Krzemionki - Świeciechów. Związki osady neolitycznej z kopalniami krzemienia]
in Polish, summary in English
Warszawa 2002, 191 pp, illustrations; A4
The book discusses relations between the Funnel Beaker Culture settlement on the Gawroniec Hill in Ćmielów, Krzemionki flint mines, and the flint mine in Świeciechów (Lesser Poland). The basis of the study is vast, so far unpublished flint material obtained during excavations at Ćmielów in 1947-1961.
archaeology - settlement - flint mining - flint processing - tools - Neolithic - Lesser Poland
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Balcer Bogdan, Machnik Jan, Sitek Jan
ISBN 83-908823-6-1
Price € 19
Prehistory of Roztocze in Zamość Region [Z pradziejów Roztocza na ziemi zamojskiej]
Kraków 2002; 230 pp, illustrations, maps, tables, supplements; A4
This study of the Roztocze (a region in south-east Poland) from the end of the Paleolithic through the Early Bronze Age, is mostly based on the private collection of Jan Sitek. Results of trial excavations and description of the natural environment are included in appendices.
archaeology - ceramics - flint tools - settlement - environment - Neolithic Period-Early Middle Ages - Lesser Poland
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Buko Andrzej [ed.]
ISBN 83-85463-50-X
Price € 19
Kleczanów. Trial Investigations 1989-1992 [Kleczanów. Badania rozpoznawcze 1989-1992]
in Polish, summary in English
Warszawa 1997; 336 pp, illustrations, tables; B5
This work includes the most important results of investigations in Kleczanów, a medieval village, near Sandomierz in southern Poland. The book contains also an analysis of written sources on the history of the village and the parish.
archaeology - settlement - history - material culture - Lesser Poland
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Bukowski Zbigniew
ISBN 83-85463-94-1
Price € 19
Amber Finds in Bronze Age and Early Iron Complexes from the Catchment Areas of the Oder and Vistula Rivers [Znaleziska bursztynu w zespołach z epoki brązu i z wczesnej epoki żelaza z dorzecza Odry oraz Wisły]
in Polish, summary in English
Warszawa 2002; 157 pp, illustrations, maps; A4
This monograph presents the problems of long-distance cultural and exchange links between northern and south Europe in the Bronze and Early Iron Age, called in the literature the earliest "Amber Route".
archaeology - amber - long-distance exchange - amber routes - Late neolithic-Iron Age - Central Europe - Poland
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Chudziak Wojciech, Moździoch Sławomir [ed.]
The State and Needs of Research on Early Medieval Poland [Stan i potrzeby badań nad wczesnym średniowieczem w Polsce - 15 lat później]
in Polish, abstracts in English
Toruń - Wrocław - Warszawa 2006; 502 pp, illustrations, maps, diagrams. A4 - hard cover
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Dąbrowska Maria, Klonder Andrzej [eds]
ISBN 83-85463-95-X
Price € 20
Children and Youth in Ancient Poland (10th-18th Centuries). Part I: Middle Ages - 18th Century [Od narodzin do wieku dojrzałego. Dzieci i młodzież w Polsce. Cz. I: Od średniowiecza do wieku XVIII]
in Polish; abstracts in English
Warszawa 2002; 324 pp, illustrations; B5
The volume contains the papers delivered at the conference held in Warsaw, 1999. The leading theme of the conference was the position of the child, both within the family and in other communities, including fostering and educational institutions.
history - material culture - habits - history of education - Middle Ages-18th c. - Poland
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Mazur Elżbieta [ed.]
ISBN 83-89499-04-5
Price € 20
Children and Youth in Ancient Poland. Part II: 19th and 20th Centuries [Od narodzin do wieku dojrzałego. Dzieci i młodzież w Polsce. Cz. II: Stulecie XIX i XX]
in Polish; abstracts in English
Warszawa 2003; 260 pp; B5
This second volume of the edited work deals with emancipation of children and their increasing significance in the family life and the society. Another issue is ideology in arising children under the authoritarian and totalitarian political systems.
history – material culture – habits – history of education – 19th-20th c. – Poland
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Dąbrowski Jan
ISBN 83-89499-14-2
Price € 30
Ältere Bronzezeit in Polen / Starsza epoka brązu w Polsce
in German; Polish version on CD
Warszawa 2004; 143 pp, illustrations + maps + CD (Polish text, catalogues); A4 - hard cover
This is a monograph of Polish Early Bronze Age, with an analysis of archaeological sources and description of settlement and economical patterns, cultures and chronology. Catalogue of sites and lists of object types are included on the CD.
archaeology - economy - ceramics - metallurgy - settlement - burial customs - religion - Early Bronze Age - Poland
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Dekówna Maria, Olczak Jerzy [eds]
ISBN 83-7181-273-6
Price € 22
Principes de description des verres anciens depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'au XIIIe s. de n. e. (d'apres l'analyse du materiél archéologique du Centre, de l'Est et du Sud-Est de l'Europe et de la Transcaucasie)
in French
Warszawa-Toruń 2002; 218 pp + atlas of colours; illustrations; schemes; A4
A highly specialized volume on terminology of ancient glass and glass objects. The authors propose conventions for description in a form of a catalogue card. The book may be very useful for those involved in working out museum collections and other glass studies.
glass - glass terminology - technology - Bronze Age-XIIIth c. - Central, East, South-East Europe - Transcaucasie
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Dobrzańska H., Megaw V., Poleska P. [eds]
ISBN 83-908823-8-8
Price € 35
Celts on the Margin. Studied in European Cultural Interaction, 7th c. BC - 1st c. AD. Dedicated to Zenon Woźniak
in English
Kraków 2005; 211 pp; illustrations; A4 - hard cover
The editors of this volume have selected a theme which at one and the same time aims to cut across the boundaries of recent political and cultural activities and to examine a related series of issues which embrace both similarities and differences in the later prehistory of Europe.
archaeology - Celts - settlement - Celtic art - the La Tene period - the Hallstatt period - Central and Southern Europe
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Domański Grzegorz
ISBN 83-913155-7-6
Price € 19
Ślęża Mount (Zobtenberg) in Prehistory and Middle Ages [Ślęża w pradziejach i średniowieczu]
in Polish; summary in German
Wrocław 2002; 176 pp, illustrations, catalogue; A4
This book presents the results of recent archaeological studies carried out at Ślęża - the "holy" mountain of Silesia. A history of settlement and its sacral role is given from the earliest evidence through the Middle Ages.
archaeology - history - settlement - architecture - Lusatian culture - Celts - cult places - prehistory-Early Middle Ages - Silesia
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Dulinicz Marek
ISBN 83-85463-89-5
Price € 26
Formation of the North-Western Slavdom. [Kształtowanie się Słowiańszczyzny Północno-Zachodniej. Studium archeologiczne]
in Polish; summary in German
Warszawa 2000; 324 pp, illustrations, maps; A4
Making use of the recent archaeological discoveries, the author presents the beginnings of the Slavic settlement in the region between lower Vistula and lower Elbe. Discussion of the emergence of Slavic tribes and their contacts with neighbours is supplemented with an extensive catalogue of sites dated to the 6th-9th centuries.
archaeology - settlement - dendrochronology - early Middle Ages - Slavdom
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Dworaczyk M., Kowalska A. , Moździoch S., Rębkowski M. [ed.]
ISBN 83-89499-34-7
Price € 45
World of Early Medieval Slavs [Świat Słowian wczesnego średniowiecza]
in Polish; some articles in English (1), German (4), Russian (3), Czech (1)
Szczecin-Wrocław 2006; 667 pp, illustrations. A4 - hard cover
Jubilee book dedicated to Professor Władysław Łosiński.
archaeology - history - settlement - craft - trade - funeral rites - weapons - Early Middle Ages - Poland - Slavdom
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Faliński J.B., Ber A., Kobyliński Z., Szymański W., Kwiatkowska-Falińska A.J. [eds]
ISBN 83-922883-0-0
Price € 22
Haćki. Natural and Archaeological Heritage Site Complex in the Bielsk Plain [Haćki. Zespół przyrodniczo-archeologiczny na Równinie Bielskiej]
in Polish
Białowieża-Warszawa 2005; 144 pp, illustrayions, diagrams, maps + CD, A4
Postglacial valley at Haćki in the eastern Poland is a site of valuable natural and cultural heritage. The book describes unique geology, geomorphology, soils, botany and archaeology of the site, comprising evidence of intensive human settlement and ceremonial activities from the Early Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period.
archaeology – environment – settlement – Early Iron Age-Early Medieval Period – Eastern Poland
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Fiedorczuk Jan
ISBN 83-89499-27-4
Price € 45
Final Paleolithic Camp Organization as Seen from the Perspective of Lithic Artifacts Refitting
in English; Polish version on CD
Warszawa 2006; 167 pp, illustrations, diagrams. A4 - hard cover
The book presents Fideorczuk's experience in refitting and spatial (i.e. behavioral) interpretation of individual histories of various categories of lithics, from their birth, through their life odventures, up until their discard and/or burial
archaeology - settlement - lithic artifacts refitting - methodology - Paleolithic - Mazovia - Poland
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Janeczek Andrzej [Editor]
ISSN 0208-9033, ISBN 83-7063-444-3
Price € 40
"Album civium Leopoliensium". Registers of New Burghers of Lviv 1388-1783 ["Album civium Leopoliensium". Rejestry przyjęć do prawa miejskiego we Lwowie 1388-1783]
in Latin, German; preface in Polish, summary in English
Poznań - Warszawa 2005; vol. 1 - 64+450 pp, vol. 2 - 294 pp + CD; B5 - hard cover
The subject of the edition are registers of admission to burghership in Lviv, housed in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv.
late medieval and modern history - Lviv [Lwów, Lemberg] - Red Ruthenia - historical sources edition - municipal rights - municipal citizenship - communal urban system
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Kadrow Sławomir [ed.]
ISBN 83-908823-3-7
Price € 26
A Turning of Ages - Im Wandel der Zeiten - Jubilee Book Dedicated to Professor Jan Machnik on His 70th Anniversary
in English, German, Polish, Slovakian, Ukrainian
Kraków 2000; 543 pp, illustrations; B5 - hard cover
The volume consists of papers on Stone and Bronze Ages in Central and Eastern Europe.
archaeology - Stone Age - Bronze Age - Central and Eastern Europe
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Kiersnowski R., Kuczyński S.K., Męclewska M., Mielczarek M., Paszkiewicz B. [eds]
ISBN 83-7181-205-1
Price € 34
Moneta Mediaevalis
in Polish, English, French, German; abstracts in English and Polish
Warszawa 2002; 580 pp, illustrations; B5 - hard cover
This well illustrated volume - a festschrift presented to Professor Stanisław Suchodolski as he enters his 65th year - is a collection of 48 essays written by outstanding European scholars. The papers deal with current problems of the Medieval coinage.
numismatics - archaeology - history - hoards - collections - Antiquity - Middle Ages
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Kobyliński Zbigniew
ISBN 83-60099-35-9, 83-89499-24-X
Price € 18
Aerial Archaeology in Poland: Eight Decades of Rises and Declines [Archeologia lotnicza. Osiem dekad wzlotów i upadków]
in Polish
Warszawa 2005; 151 pp, photos; A4
The book describes complicated history of aerial archaeology in Poland, starting with the earliest use of airplanes and balloons in the 1930s and ending with the recent developments in the beginning of the 21st century. Rationale for aerial archaeology is presented, as well as reasons for appearance of crop-marks, soil-marks, shadow-marks and snow-marks. The book is illustrated with archival photographs, and contains numerous colourful aerial pictures of archaeological sites.
aerial archaeology – history – methodology – Europe – Poland
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Kobyliński Zbigniew [ed.]
ISBN 83-85463-93-3
Price € 17
Quo vadis archaeologia? Whither European archaeology in the 21st century? Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop, Mądralin near Warsaw, 12-13 October 2001.
in English
Warsaw 2001; 208 pp., illustrations; B5 - hard cover
Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on the future of archaeology as being increasingly interwoven with the cultural heritage protection and management.
archaeology - methodology - archaeological heritage
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Kruppé Jerzy, Pośpiech Andrzej [eds]
ISBN 83-85463-32-1
Price € 34
"Omnia res mobilia". Polish Studies in Posthumous Inventories of Movable Property in the 16th-19th Century
in English
Warszawa 1999; 302 pp, illustrations; A4 - hard cover
This collection of articles, devoted to the topic of material culture in everyday life of various social groups in Poland from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, is based on posthumous inventories.
history - material culture - posthumous inventories - everyday life - 16th-19th cent. - Poland
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Kulczycka-Leciejewiczowa Anna
ISBN 83-913155-4-1
Price € 19
Zawarża. A Neolithic Settlement in the Southern Poland’s Loess Region [Zawarża. Osiedle neolityczne w południowopolskiej strefie lessowej]
in Polish; summary in English
Wrocław 2002; 165 pp, illustrations; A4
Zawarża is one of the most thoroughly researched settlements of the Funnel Beaker Culture in south-eastern Poland’s loess region. The book is supplemented with analyses of flint implements, plant imprints on pugging, bone material, and ceramic potsherds discovered during excavation works.
archaeology - Stone Age - settlement - environment - Lesser Poland
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Lityńska-Zając Maria
ISBN 83-908823-9-6
Price € 30
Segetal Weeds in Prehistoric and Early Medieval Farming [Chwasty w uprawach roślinnych w pradziejach i wczesnym średniowieczu]
in Polish; summary in English
Kraków 2005; 444 pp, maps, tables; hard cover; B5
The basic aim of the study was to sum up the hitherto obtained results of investigations of archaeobotanical plant material from the territory of Poland, and concerning finds of field weeds. The study, it seems, showed a connection between the development of segetal communities and improvement of farming tools. A catalogue of finds is included.
archaeology – archaeobotany – weeds – segetal plant communities – Neolithic-Early Middle Ages – Poland
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Makowiecki Daniel
ISBN 83-89499-02-9
Price € 19
History of fishes and fishing in Holocene on Polish Lowland in the light of archaeoichthyological studies [Historia ryb i rybołówstwa w holocenie na Niżu Polskim w świetle badań archeoichtiologicznych]
in Polish; summary in English;
Poznań 2003; 198 pp, illustrations, tables; A4
The book presents comprehensive study on two topics. The first concerns the proliferation of ichthyofauna during Holocene into water bodies of Polish Lowland and South Baltic. The second focuses on fish exploitation and food economy from Mesolithic to Post-Medieval Times. Both problems are discussed on the basis of assemblages of fish remains from archaeological and cultural context.
archaeoichthyology - fish species - economy - culture - environment - fishing - Early Stone Age-Modern Times - Baltic Sea - Poland
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Misiewicz Krzysztof
ISBN 83-85463-68-2
Price € 15
Geophysical Methods in Planning of Archaeological Investigations [Metody geofizyczne w planowaniu badań wykopaliskowych]
in Polish; abstract in English
Warszawa 1998; 199 pp, illustrations; B5
The author reviews various geophysical methods used for archaeological prospection. Among the most important are the ones helping to determine dimensions of sites and facilitating planning of large scale excavations. The results of surveys of over 40 different archaeological sites are also included.
geophysics - archaeology - preliminary survey
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Misiewicz Krzysztof
ISBN 83-89499-30-4
Price € 22
Archaeological Geophysics [Geofizyka archeologiczna]
in Polish
Warszawa 2006; 212 pp, illustrations; B5
The author reviews various geophysical methods and equipment for magnetic, electromagnetic, and electroresistivity testing in archaeology. He also gives examples of obtained results and their interpretation.
geophysics – archaeology – interpretation of results
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Moździoch Sławomir
ISBN 83-7181-272-8
Price € 22
Castrum Munitissimum Bytom. Local Power Center in Early Medieval Poland [Castrum munitissimum Bytom. Lokalny ośrodek władzy w państwie wczesnopiastowskim]
in Polish
Warszawa 2002; 320 pp, illustrations, graphs, maps; A4
On the evidence of recent excavations at Bytom Odrzański the author creates his own vision of the Piast rule in Early Medieval Poland based on fortified settlements as elements of the military system and administration. He argues against the early genesis of Polish towns and significance of land estates.
archaeology – history – settlement – strongholds – towns – Early Middle Ages – Silesia - Poland
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Purowski Tomasz
ISBN 83-89499-05-3
Price € 11
Lusatian Culture Cemetery in Ożumiech, North Masovia [Cmentarzysko kultury łużyckiej w Ożumiechu na północnym Mazowszu]
in Polish; summary in German
Warszawa 2003; 157 pp, illustrations; B5
The monograph on the cemetery of the Lusatian culture in Ożumiech, North Masovia.
archaeology - ceramics - funeral rites - Lusatian culture - Bronze Age - Masovia - Poland
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Rębkowski Marian
ISBN 83-85463-91-7
Price € 19
The First Foundations of the Charter Towns in the Duchy of West Pomerania. Spatial and Cultural Changes. [Pierwsze lokacje miast w księstwie zachodniopomorskim. Przemiany przestrzenne i kulturowe]
in Polish, summary in German
Kołobrzeg 2001: 261 pp, illustrations; B5 - hard cover
The book deals with the origins of the charter towns founded in the 13th century on the basis of German Law. In the light of archaeological data, the author analyses processes of cultural and topographical transformations related to the locations of the new urban centres.
archaeology – towns – locations – Middle Ages – ceramics – West Pomerania
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Schild Romuald [ed.]
ISBN 83-89499-32-1
Price € 45
The Killing Fields of Zwoleń. A Middle Paleolithic Kill-Butchery-Site in Central Poland
in English
Warszawa 2005; 242 pp, illustrations, maps, diagrams; A4 - hard cover
An interdisciplinary report on an important Middle Paleolithic site in northern Lesser Poland. The presence of numerous remains of mega fauna, mainly horse, permit functional interpretation of human proceedings in the past. It is clear that most of the finds at Zwoleń should be understood as resulting from organized winter hunt of horses drawn to and trapped in a deep, cul-de-sac section of a small tributary of the Vistula, the Zwolenka river.
archaeology – hunting Middle Paleolithic – Micoquian Technocomplex – northern Lesser Poland
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Sulgostowska Zofia
ISBN 83-89499-25-8
Price € 30
Contacts between Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic Communities in the Area between the Odra, Dvina and Upper Dniester Rivers. A Study of Siliceous Artifacts Distribution [Kontakty społeczności późnopaleolitycznych i mazolitycznych między Odrą, Dźwiną i górnym Dniestrem. Studium dystrybucji wytworów ze skał krzemionkowych]
in Polish; summary in English
Warszawa 2005; 344 pp, illustrations; B5 - hard cover
The book tackles the social significance of human contacts in Final Paleolithic and Mesolithic hunting-gathering societies relating to raw materials acquisition and distribution.
archaeology – flint processing acquisition and distribution – long-range human contacts – Paleolithic/Mesolithic – eastern Central Europe
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Świętosławski Witold
ISBN 83-89499-36-3
Price € 22
The Nomads of the Great Steppe on the Polish Territory in the 10th, 11th, and 12th Century [Ślady koczowników Wielkiego Stepu z X, XI i XII wieku w dorzeczach Wisły i Odry]
in Polish; summary in English and Russian
Łódź 2006; 160 pp, illustrations; B5
Having analysed written accounts, archaeological, and toponymical sources, Świętosławski concludes that the representatives of the Steppe people time and again visited Polish territory. What is more, in the 10th, 11th, and 12th c. these nomads were much frequent guests that has been assumed so far, and the effects of their attacks were very different.
archaeology – history – toponymical data – armament – nomads – Early Middle Ages – Poland – Great Steppe
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Urbańczyk Przemysław [ed.]
ISBN 83-7181-211-6
Price € 30
Europe around the Year 1000
in English
Warszawa 2001; 488 pp, illustrations; B5 - hard cover
A rich panorama of the whole of the continent at the turn of the 1st millennium. 'Native' scholars comment upon the situation in their region: Europe around the year 1000 was a boiling complexity, from which its modern geopolitical structure was emerging.
archaeology - history - religion - demography - christianisation - Early Middle Ages - Europe
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Urbańczyk Przemysław [ed.]
ISBN 83-85463-88-7
Price € 15
The Neighbours of Poland in the 10th Century
in English, German, French
Warszawa 2000; 204 pp, illustrations, maps; B5
The volume consists of papers that offer a broad panorama of the regions surrounding Polish lands during the 10th century: Sweden, Norway, Polabian Slavs, German Kingdom, Bohemia, Slovakia, Hungary, Rus' and the Baltic tribes.
archaeology - history - Early Middle Ages - Central and Northern Europe
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Urbańczyk Przemysław [ed.]
ISBN 83-7181-271-X
Price € 19
The Neighbours of Poland in the 11th Century
in English and German
Warszawa 2002; 210 pp, illustrations, maps; B5 - hard cover
The volume consists of papers that offer a broad panorama of the regions surrounding Polish lands during the 11th century: Sweden, Norway, German Kingdom, Bohemia, Slovakia, Hungary, Rus' and the Baltic tribes.
archaeology - history - geopolitics - Early Middle Ages - Central and North Europe
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Urbańczyk Przemysław [ed.]
ISBN 83-85463-30-5
Price € 19
Origins of Central Europe
in English and German
Warszawa 1997, 250 pp, illustrations; B5
Collection of studies presented at an international conference (1996). Its goal was to gather people dealing with various aspects of the early Central-European history and let them look at it from various methodological perspectives.
archaeology - history - methodology - Early Middle Ages - Central Europe
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Urbańczyk Przemysław [ed.]
ISBN 83-89499-11-8
Price € 40
Polish Lands at the Turn of the First and the Second Millennia
in English
Warszawa 2004; 387 pp, illustrations; hard cover, A4
The results summarized in this book bring new insights into the process of the formation of the Polish state. After revaluation of the old hypotheses using the information produced by the recent excavations and laboratory analyses, it appeared that many well established concepts must be changed.
archeology – history – settlement – towns – strongholds – Early Middle Ages – Poland
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Valde-Nowak Paweł
ISBN 83-85463-37-2
Price € 19
Early Farming Settlement in the German Middle Mountains [Osadnictwo wczesnorolnicze średniogórza niemieckiego]
in Polish; summary in German
Kraków 1995; 191 pp, tables; B5
Comprehensive account on early farming communities in German Mid-Mountain ranges: Bayerisches Wald, Schwarzwald and Schwäbischer Alb. Vast archaeological sources together with paleo-bothanical evidences have been utilised by the author.
archaeology - neolithics - pastoralism - early farming - settlement - German Middle Mountains
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Valde-Nowak Paweł [ed.]
ISBN 83-908823-2-9
Price € 15
The Beginnings of Settlement in the Sudety Mountains [Początki osadnictwa w Sudetach]
in Polish; summaries in English
Kraków 1999; 238 pp, illustrations; B5
The contributions address many different aspects of research on the Stone Age in this characteristic mountainous landscape. This volume includes the results of the most recent research undertaken jointly by Polish and German institutions.
archaeology - palinology - settlement - Stone Age - Sudety Mountains - southern Poland
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Valde-Nowak Paweł, Nadachowski Andrzej, Madeyska Teresa [eds]
ISBN 83-908823-7-X
Price € 24
Obłazowa Cave. Human Activity, Stratigraphy, and Palaeoenvironment
in English
Kraków 2003; 176 pp, illustrations, tables; A4 - hard cover
Interdisciplinary studies in Obłazowa Cave yielded important data not only for the reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironment, but also significant archaeological results. The most spectacular moment in the fieldwork was the discovery a concentration of pebbles in layer VIII, together with a series of unique artefacts and human bones, the most ancient in Poland.
archaeology - archaeozoology - stratigraphy - tools - environment - settlement - caves - Upper Palaeolitic - West Carpathians - Poland
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Wendorf Frank, Schild Romuald, et al.
ISBN 83-85463-56-9
Price € 15
A Late Paleolithic Kill-Butchery-Camp in Upper Egypt
in English
Dallas - Warszawa 1997; 63 pp, illustrations; A4
The book contains detailed description of chronologic, geomorphologic and paleoenvironmental setting of the site (near Essna in Upper Egypt), as well as an archaeozoological interpretation of one of the largest faunal assemblage ever found in the Nile Valley. It also includes formal and functional analyses of lithic artefacts.
archaeology - Stone Age - environment - archaeozoology - Upper Egypt
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Włodarczak Piotr
Corded Ware Culture in Lesser Poland Upland [Kultura ceramiki sznurowej na Wyżynie Małopolskiej]
in Polish; summary in English
Kraków 2006; 346 pp, illustrations, tables; A4 - hard cover
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Wünsch Thomas, Janeczek Andrzej [eds]
ISBN 83-89499-17-7
Price € 22
On the Frontier of Latin Europe. Integration and Segregation in Red Ruthenia, 1350-1600
in English and German
Warszawa 2004; 242 pp, maps; B5 - hard cover
Nine authors examine ethnic, cultural and social transformation of Red Ruthenia after its annexation to Polish state in the middle of the 14th century. This border region, situated in Eastern Europe, is reconstructed as a zone of migration, cohabitation, and intercultural penetration.
medieval and early modern history - frontier - multiethnic society - minorities - assimilation - acculturation - integration - segregation - towns - nobility - Lordship - Church - religious relations - Red Ruthenia - Galicia - Eastern Europe
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Zoll-Adamikowa Helena, Dekówna Maria, Nosek Elżbieta Maria
ISBN 83-85345-09-4
Price € 30
The Early Mediaeval Hoard from Zawada Lanckorońska (Upper Vistula River)
in English
Warszawa 1999;132 pp, ilustrations, summary in Polish; A4 - hard cover
This is a publication of the hoard which consists of 47 glass beads with silver ornamentation, and 30 other silver items discovered together in a clay jar. The assemblage is photographically documented including many SEM and X-ray photographs.
archaeology - hoards - early Middle Age - Lesser Poland
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